Places we once called home
From the deep past, scientists are uncovering the stuff that makes us human—from forward planning, to the very beginnings of art. One of these discoveries is that our ancestors were not homebodies. We were wanderers who kept our stays short.
PhD and MPhil Scholarship Opportunities
The Discipline Group of Classics and Ancient History is keen to support applications from international students intending to undertake graduate research (MPhil/PhD) in Classics (Language and Literature), Ancient History, and Classical Reception Studies.
Research Fellow in Classics
An opportunity is available for a Research Fellowship in Classics, starting on 1 October 2019 and tenable for two years.
Discovering Greek and Roman Cities
In this trilingual Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) , an international team of experts from six different universities will explore the many facets of Greek and Roman cities.
Student’s find in Peru offers lesson in how archaeologists piece together stories of a people
Caroline Coolidge was stunned. The rising second-year was digging at the archaeology field school in San José de Moro, Peru, and there in the dusty dirt a small face stared up at her...
Volunteering opportunities with Circulating Artefacts project
The Circulating Artefacts project is looking for volunteers to help with digitising sales catalogues and documenting pharaonic artefacts advertised online.
The Mesoamerican attraction to magnetism
Potbelly statues: Depictions of the ruling elite? A way to honor dead ancestors? Or perhaps portrayals of women giving birth?
Gene transcripts from ancient wolf analyzed after 14,000 years in permafrost
Sample from an ancient canid gives a first look at the new field of paleo-transcriptomics.
Inspection of the elevator to the Acropolis
After fifteen years of continuous use since being installed, today’s elevator is already old and malfunctioning.
How the Islamic world influenced western art
This exhibition examines the idea of Orientalism, offering another look at this cultural relationship.
Who dominates the discourse of the past?
Male academics, who comprise less than 10 percent of North American archaeologists, write the vast majority of the field's high impact, peer-reviewed literature.
Regional Epigraphic Cultures across the Ancient Globe
Panel proposals are invited to be submitted for consideration for the Classical Association Conference 2020.
A musical evening on August Full Moon at the Acropolis Museum
On Thursday 15 August 2019, at 9 p.m., the Acropolis Museum invites visitors to its entrance courtyard on a musical journey under the August Full Moon.
Impressive building of the Middle Neolithic discovered in Koutroulou,Magoula
The tenth archaeological season was completed last week of the Archaeological and Archaeological Ethnography Project of Koutroulou Magoula.
Leigh Fermor house opens to public
Necessary repairs have been completed and the Patrick & Joan Leigh Fermor House is ready to host scholars and artists as well as welcome visitors.
Changes in human diet shed light on human evolution
A shift in diet has long been seen as one of the critical adaptations that distinguishes our own genus Homo from earlier human ancestors.
Using artificial intelligence to fill in gaps in ancient texts
Enrique Jiménez is engaged on the reconstruction of the beginnings of world literature with the help of artificial intelligence.
Archaeologists uncover alignment of six stelae standing stones
The ritual stones date from the Neolithic period (around 2500BC) and were discovered close to where, during the 1960’s several tombs and standing stones were previously discovered.
“The Mysterious East” comes to Athens in November
126 valuable, representative works by Qi Baishi are to be exhibited for the first time in Athens, revealing his very personal style and accomplishments.
Εarliest known lunar calendar may be an engraved pebble
The oldest known lunar calendar may be an engraved pebble dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic found in Velletri, in the Alban Hills, south of Rome.
World’s smallest fossil monkey found in Amazon jungle
A team of Peruvian and American scientists have uncovered the 18-million-year-old remains of the smallest fossil monkey ever found.
The oldest known forerunners of fresco paintings in the Mediterranean
Researchers from the Universities of Beirut and Tübingen have analyzed 4000-year-old murals in a Bronze Age palace in Lebanon.
Ancient Egyptian and Ancient Near Eastern Palaces. Volume II
This volume is dedicated primarily to Near Eastern palaces which are presented and studied by prominent experts in this field.
Archaeologists in Egypt complete underwater research at Canopus and Heracleion
The Egyptian-European Archaeological Mission of the European Institute of Marine Archeology completed the current season’s work at the underwater site of Canopus and Heracleion, in the Gulf of Abu Qir, Alexandria.